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The familiar air is like a shell murmuring in their ears sweet, far-off, imperishable memories of youth, and that special epoch of youth best described as "les heureux jours où l'on était si malheureux!" It is an experience worth having to have heard the great singers, but it is not of the great singers that I wish to speak here.
Seventy-four men had for some time past felt their fingers itching with an almost irresistible desire to do this, and now upwards of thirty of them were allowed to gratify their wish. Instantly the good ship received a shock that caused her to quiver from the trucks to the keel, as her broadside went crashing into the Heureux.
The fate of an army, can it depend upon the personal good fortune of the General who commands it? Cardinal Mazarin seemed to be of this opinion, since he never failed to ask those who recommended persons to him to head expeditions, "is he lucky?" est-il heureux? Can it be surmised that fortune acts with her favorite sons at the head of armies, as she does at gambling tables?
"Heureux celui qui n'est forcee de sacrifier personne a son devoir." "You know," said Marguerite the next morning, as she and Cornish rode quietly along the sandy roads, beneath the shade of the pines "you know, papa is such a jolly, simple old dear he doesn't understand women in the least." "And do you call yourself a woman nowadays?" inquired Cornish. "You bet.
The best thing the poor fellow can do is to reform his ways, and he does not fail to neglect doing this at nearly every volume. "The seventh volume of the edition which I have before me is entitled, La Théorie du Bonheur; ou, L' Art de se rendre Heureux mis a la Portée de tous les Hommes, faisant Suite ait 'Comte de Valmont, Paris Bossange, 1801, eleventh edition.
I shall now proceed to investigate the merits of the former, at the Theatre Francais. Parts of noble Fathers. VANHOVE and NAUDET. VANHOVE. This actor is rather more sufferable in comedy than tragedy; but in both he is very monotonous, and justifies the lines applied to him by a modern satirist, M. DESPAZE: "VANHOVE, plus heureux, psalmodie a mon gre; Quel succes l'attendait, s'il eut ete Cure!"
Had not the doctor in London told his assistant, Heureux, that Sir Hugh's sphere of usefulness was at an end, and that, in all probability, a contretemps would occur one which would in future save to "the syndicate" the sum of five thousand pounds per annum? Truth to tell, Bézard, director of the Sûreté, had telegraphed orders for the arrest of Sir Hugh and his daughter.
"Well, then, whoever said so, 'tis the same to me! And so your divertissement is called the 'Facheux? Well, can you make heureux rhyme with facheux?" "If obliged, yes." "And even with capriceux." "Oh, no, no." "It would be hazardous, and yet why so?" "There is too great a difference in the cadences." "I was fancying," said La Fontaine, leaving Moliere for Loret "I was fancying "
Nous sommes tous heureux d'avoir le costume des Anglais Seul'ment ce qu'il fallait, Pour que ça soit complet. Et je suis certain si l'armée veut nous mettre
A leading member of the Assembly, M. Rabaut de St. Étienne, has expressed the principle of all their proceedings as clearly as possible; nothing can be more simple: "Tous les établissemens en France couronnent le malheur du peuple: pour le rendre heureux, il faut le renouveler, changer ses idées, changer ses loix, changer ses mœurs, ... changer les hommes, changer les choses, changer ses mots, ... tout détruire; oui, tout détruire; puisque tout est
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